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I kird3> eluding f s each, tnd Mo-ves and Go. 17-458 ACE HE o. b, N. C. e at the ■ int. NT. C. - •ty. f i "I IB m ie-th. nal ;h- 81 ne @ itesss is bod m to PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY PATRIOT GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1918. VOL. 97-NO. 72 | REPORTS fig BATTLEFIELDS „.««, MAKI>« STOUT RE- ((«***■ . ,..„„ A\S GAIN [isli armies the cUi their way into . on various sectors of . French TM »•" ,»*■» J° Ge:Jian 1W~ ., battle line m ..tlo«r P-1' ' T:)'Jl'-1 ..ndiiw the weather. '' nMn the violence of the op- "*'" n.u Marshal Haig'a forces SATURDAY'S SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT WAR NEWS NEW DRIVES ALL ALONG WEST BATTLEFEIDS—GAINS ARE MADE DAILY. Toe process of closing in toward the Hindenburg line at the points where it had not yet been reached was continued rapidly Saturday by both the French and the British. The British moved forward at on accele-rated pace below the Cambrai-Pe-ronne front and on that front itself they already are close to the line.. FRANCO-AMERICANS DRIlflNUlEMY OUT REPORTS FRIDAY SAY THAT RE-TIREMENT FROM PICARDY IS ALMOST A ROUT. encroached upon j South of the Somme the French ' h ■Tand St- Quentln, while far- | pressed on beyond Tergnier and oitili the French armies are moved up speedily along all the line rj£ eastward on the old Ncron ! opposite the front between La Fere \ 't",-,1 La Fere and Laon and and S:- Quentin. * Aj fi m Soiseons in an aux- [ Germans OMig Dp Ground In East. .. maneuver ».ca Mires in »•**'■ the same ob- On She Aisne, there was little | c.iar.ge towards the western part of i Additional Ground, the front where the Americans and Vesle and the Aisne French are on the river, facing the je liii.Tiwn» Between 'lle where the American troops Germans entrenched along the cana". Wiii the French, addi- which parallels the stream. Further . :. t'aU portion of • n IA are i:i the hell eefore the big : ; ■ March. 1 m Offering Siinu Resistance. been gained by east the Germans are givine up ;.:;e, jsronnd. T;,e British now are standing at in F!an.»ers the British made ,,,., .:x miles from St. Quen- some farther headway but found the '■•'"hivir.- carried out an advance German resistance stiffening around .aten mile from on the general LaBassee. The Germans apparently r- or Epehy- Hasbecourt and Ver- do not intend to give up Armentier- !i the greater es. in this sector, bi*t are reported of the Havrincourl wood, one hurriedly fortifying the region de- ,;::...:'. strong points barring tending it. ,rai also has been Bu,Kes in Iiin? Xow naUen6d ()ut UU6 be6-n-.„U'! Marshal Pochs succession of him-mering blows along the German lines tram Rheims to Arras sin:e July 18 have now well-nigh completely flat-tened out the great bulges created b; the German offensives of the the Germans are sr-~-n? ana early summer. ... e m resistance :o further Further still the well co-ordinated ., British. Gradually progress o! his attack baa brought Fres h are working their way h:ra to a poirfc where lie may well be .- north of soissons able to strike a sii'.l more disastrous in ue movement that aims at the blow to the German defensive sys-iaok at ■ ;. i Fere and Laon and tem in the west. iitions east of this What Gen. Forh's Plan May Involve. legi ., Thej have reached the out- It appears that Marshal Foch's skirts ol lage of Sevais on plan may prove to involve the turn-ii.' northern edge of the forest and ing of the old Hindenburg line at ! :-J miles from La Fere while a Oambrai and Laon. In the north the ■ llstan ie nort'.i they have British have been for several days in Meniiessis on the a position to deliver what might easily prove a vital stroke to the nils latter gain brings the French west of Cambrai, where they have than eight miles halted at the ("anal du Nord and 8l Q nude no move toward driving home Hard Fighting North of the Aisne. i the olow which the logic of the Sit- X rth ol Visne, near Soissons, ' u4t,on points t0 as inevitable. tomans are fighting hard to' In ,he south the armies of General Petain have now fought their way to positions where the left flank of the line is under their guns and the edges of the defensive positions are beginning to feel the effect of the i the Fren '■■ in check, realizing - them of much more :' - egion, in conjunc- 11» aver that is in the St. Gobian for- - entire German de- poundinS-i toward Rheims ion. Near Laffaux •-Sur-Aisne the ■m have delivered s-lrong coun- ■• French every- :?haTe maintained their ground. '..' "u Reacting s,uth of Ypres. - also are reacting xhar so«th of Ypres, especially • i'loegstreet, where hreatening the re-ntieres. Counter of-s here and east of :- »>■ |. B broken up by "the Da niv„1(v luken I>ast Week. ""* the first week of Septem- 1 Marshal Haig'e forces ' taker m 19.000prison- - ""n.bers of machine M 1»antitle» of stores. . * v '' ■ events are on the French Already in Advance of 1917 Line. On the western outskirts of the Bastion of St. Gobain. defending Laon, the French already at Barisis are in advance of the line they occu-pied in 1917 and further south be-low the main bastion, are standing on ground which had not been in al-lied hands since 1914. Further north they are before La Fere, whence an eastward drive would carry them north of the St. Gobain Massif. French Drive Aimed at Massif. The French drive seems clearly aimed at this Massif, which, appar-ently safe from capture by a frontal attack, seams not unlikely to prove the objective of an encircling move-ment. This, however, may have to await the further retirement of the Germans northward from the Aisne, to the east. Such a retirement is re-intente allies, in the gardad as Inevitable because Of the -'war is indicated allied position on me German left Newton D. Baker, flank, from the Aisne at Conde to it p.,." ""r,r> of war, again Vauxaillon and there are not want-var conference. , ing military critics who argue that the Germans here will not be per-mitted to halt even at the Chemin-des- Dames position but that the en-emy will be forced to retreat still further north, thus additionally ex-posing Laon on the west. '^"■"^ "KSHOITLD IS HELD THERE. - " '■ ' ■ ii: ''•—Congress to- 111 arrangement ' Peruvian and "^'s for the use of s interned at Cal- '■- J ■ ■ . C'allao were seiz- ".; in June, some of - steamers with pas- ■ "filiations, formerly Murderer Taken to Jail at Asheville. Asheville, Sept. 6.—Dennis Love-lace, of Rutherfordton county, ar-rested on the charge of killing his i father-in-law, H. E. Edwards, last Monday, has been brought to Ashe-ville and placed in the Buncombe '.'■'- •••'' Francisco. South ' count>' J3-1 for saEe keeping. Sheriff . lanjr. (.Tanner,, of Rutherford county, ef-' ,; off relations tectea tlle capture yesterday morning October, 1917 the ' and immea*latel>' brought Lovelace | save the presi- to Asheville. He will be held until use the German' nIs Pre:iminarJ' trial on the charge "" eesa of murder. The French and Americans are fast driving the Germans out of their positions in southern Picardy and in the sector between the Vesle and Aisne rivers. So rapid has been the progress of the allies—the French in Picardy and the Ameri-cans and French from" Soissons east-ward toward Rheims—that the re-tirement of the enemy has the ap-pearance of the beginning almost of a rout. Still Tasting Defeat. . Meanwhile Field Marshal Haig in the north, from Peronne to Ypres, has been almost as busily engaged with his troops in carrying out suc-cessful maneuvers which are only in a slightly less degree of rapidity forcing the Germans everywhere to give ground. Haigs men again have made the Germans taste bitter de-feat on numerous sectors and the end of the punishment for them seems not yet in sight. Thirty Towns Reclaimed. In the latest fighting in the region extending from the old Noyon sector to Soissons the French have reclaim-ed thirty villages from the Germans; have crossed the Somme Canal at several points and are standing only a short distance from the important junction of Ham with its roads lead-ing to St. Quentin and La Fere. On the south they have made further crossings of the Ailette river and are fast skirting the great wooded region which acts as a barrier to di-rect attack on Laon. the Chemin des Dames, and the western Aisne in the defense of the enemy. Seemingly at the present rate of progress this bar-rier shortly will nave been overcome and. indeed, the entire salient north-west of Soissons obliterated. Al-ready the French south of Fresnes. on the fringe of the high forest of Coucy. have penetrated the old Hin-denburg line. Falling Back to Old Line. All behind the lines northeast of Xoyon great conflagrations are to be seen, particularly around Jussy and La Fere, which apparently indicates that the Germans intend to fall back as fast as they can to the old German lines running southeastward from St Quentin. The French and Americans are hard after the Germans between the Vesle river and the Aisne and for more than 8 miles, extending from Conde to Vil-Arcy, they have driven the enemy across the Aisne and are standing on the southern bank of the river. Eastward toward Rheims, al-most up to the gates of the cathedral city, the German line is falling back northward. At the anchoir point of the line in the vicinity of Rheims. however, the Germans seem to be nold'.ng evidently realizing that a re-tragrade movement here would nec-essitate a straightening of their line perhaps as far eastward as Verdun. Along Vesle Front. In the initial maneuver to the re-treat along the Vesle front the Amer-icans and French captured both Baz-oches and Fismette. From Bazoches they moved six miles northward to Vil-Arcy, while from Fismette they have penetrated more than three miles northward to Barbonval, which is only a little more than a mile south of the Aisne. In T'liHidors. In Flanders the British have taken the town Ploegsteert and positions southwest of Messines and northeast of Wulverghem and repulsed strong counter attacks launched against them. Southeast of Arras all the way down the line to the south of the Somme below Peronne, the British have dug more deeply into the ene-my's front on various sectors, espe-cially toward Cambrai and immedi-ately north and south of Peronne in the latter region having driven in the enemy's rear guards for consid-erable distances. Bombing Americans. The Germans have been violently bombing the Americans at Frapelle on the eastern end of the battle front in Lorraine, but have attempted no infantry attacks. More than three thousand shells, many of them gas projectiles, have been sent into the American lines by the enemy. DBMOCRATS-REPUBLICANS APPLAUD CLAUDE KITCHIN WHES RE OFFERS GREAT TAXA-TnMMEASURE TO HOUSE-FUTURE COST LARGE. Washington. Sept. 6.—Represen-tative Claude Kitchin, chairman of tne ways and means committee, was given an ovation by the house today when he walked to the foot of the center aisle to begin debate on the eight billion dollar revenue bill. Both ptopublicans and Democrats arose to their feet and applauded the majority leader, who held in his hand the greatest taxation measure ever presented to a law-making body. In return for this send-off the North Carolina member, who is a forceful orator, delivered a speech replete with patriotism and contain-ing several startling statements. For instance, Mr. Kitchin predict-ed that never again will it be possi-ble for this government to operate on less than approximately four bil-lion dollars a year. It was not many years ago that a hubbub was raised when the appropriations of Congress reached nearly a billion dollars and Thomas B. Reed, then speaker of the house, sagely observed: "This is-a billion-dollar country." Hereafter, according to Mr. Kitch-in's forecast, it Is to be a four billion dollar country. The interest charge on the bonded indebtedness of the nation alone will amount to a billion a year. Mr. Kitchin explained today. If the war continues long, it will exceed by far that amount. Public Debt of Fort) Billion. "Should the war not end next year," said Mr. Kitchin. "we may ex-pect a public debt of forty billion dollars with correspondingly increas-ed interest charges." . Waving a copy of the revenue bill in hij^jvfjnd.at thp cutset of his speech. Mr. Kitcnin said: "The president, commander-in-chief of the army and navy, asked for a revenue bill to raise eight bil-lion dollars. Here it is." Continuing. Representative Kitch-in said in part: "This bill raises twice as much an-nual revenue as this or any other nation ever attempted to produce. It is more than three times the total of bonds issued and taxes levied by the federal government during the Civil war and two and one-half bil-lion dollars more than the total cost of the Civil war. I firmly believe that under the provisions of the bill we can raise the full amount with-out ruining a single business or em-barrassing a single individual." "I believe we have prepared a bill which will be supported by the treasury department and the admin-istration," continued Mr. Kitchin. "and I believe these taxes, enormous as they are. will be paid cheerfully by the loyal citizens of this country. They know that these taxes are be-ing paid in order to support our brave soldiers now fighting on the bloody fields of France. I believe the achievements of the American soldiers will forever challenge the admiration of mankind and will make the century ring with the glory of our nation. Nearly $20,000,000,000 in Bonds. "We will have issued in the near future about $26,000,000,000 of bonds, and on these there will be a fixed interest tuarge of about $1 105,000,000 every year. If we had not passed the bill increasing our revenues, we would have had to raise more than $30,000,000,000 in bonds, with a fixed interest charge greatly increased. "We know that after the war there must come a time of falling prices. It has come after every war in history. Profits and incomes, which now bear the great burden of these taxes, will be greatly reduced. Business men should be willing now. with the greatly increased profits and incomes, to pay more in taxes, and thus relieve themselves and fu-ture generations from these heavy interest charges. "Should the war not end next year we may expect a public deft of $40.- 000.000.000. with correspondingly increased fixed interest charges. The cost of pensions and insurance will be more than $1,000,000,000 annual-ly, and other expenses will be in-creased. Would it not be almost a crime against our own government if we should issue more bonds and less taxes? Let us not fasten these BRITISH AND AUSTRALIANS STILL PUSHING FORWARE VAST QUANTITIES OF WAR MA-TERIALS BURNED AS THE GERMANS RETREAT. With the British Army in France. Sept. 6.—Substantial advances again are reported all along the southern part of the line. The Australians have crossed the Somme on a wide front south of Peronne and after overcoming heavy opposition have driven into the territory the enemy was holding. St Chris:. Brie, Le Mesnil, Doignt and Athies wood all nave been taken and progress is re-ported east of these places. Many Explosions, Many Villages Aflame. The enemy also has been driven back from east and northeast of Pe-ronne. Over the whole area of the Germans retreat on this lage section many fires are raging and numerous explosions have been heard. Whole villages are aflame between the points to which the British have reached and the Hindenburg line. Here and in the northern area6 the Germans are burning vast quantities of war materials which they could not save, as the British are pushing them too hard. The British have reached the Athies-Ham road and are on the eastern outskirts of Bussu. At Xur-iu strong German forces, fighting desperately with machine guns and trench mortars, have caused the British to pause for the moment. Enemy Efforts to Save Their Big iiuns. Along the whole front from the southern extremity to the Bapaume- Cambrai road the enemy artillery fire gradually is dwindling away, in-dicating that the Germans are mak-ing strenuous efforts to get their guns back of the Hindenburg de-fenses. In the Queant area the "British after sharp fighting, occupied the ridge south of Moeuvres and captur-ed more German posts around Hav-rincourt wood. South of this wood the advance north and south of Equancourt met with heavy resist-ance. Just east of ..ere the whole town of Fins is aflame. British pests west of the Canal Dunord, north of Inchy, have been pushed forward, but patrols on the west bank were heavily fired upon from the east bank. One British pa-trol crawled across a damaged bridge and came upon an enemy outpost asleep. It captured three of them. More Fires Raging in the North. In the north, where British ad-vances are reported more fires are raging. In many places north of the Sensee river the Germans for several hours have been firing thousands of gas shells. Indiscriminately as though they are trying to get rid of them. A number of fires have been re-ported south of Estaires-Armentieres road. There have been three coun-ter- attacks against Hill 63 and the surrounding positions. Two broke down completely but the third, north of the hill, compelled the British to fall back slightly. Piece After Piece of Ground Reclaim-ed. Further north the British reached the crest of the important ridge northwest of Wulverghem, but were unable to go further for a time be-cause of heavy enemy machine gun and trench mortar fire. Still further north piece after piece of ground is being regained. The British have reached Canteleux and are pushing on toward Violaines. Weak enemy counter attacks south of Ploegsteert were easily smother-ed. Drafted Man Killed. Spartanburg, S. C, Sept. 6.—Jos-eph A. Merale, a drafted man from Brooklyn. H. Y.. died at Spartanburg Wednesday afternoon as the result of a blow on the head at Blacksburg, received as he rode past a water-pipe on the steps of a coach. His skull was crushed. financial burdens on future genera-tions. "I would feel like a miserable coward if I put a single dollar up to my children to pay to meet the cost of this war, if I could pay it myself. I refuse to display the lack of man-hood involved in leaving for those to come the burden of paying for what I ought to pay myself." EIGHTEEN GERMANS AT HOT SPRINGS ARE DEAD ONE HUNDRED AND SEVETTY* SEVEN CASES OF TYPHOID A* INTERMENT CAMP. Washington. Sept. 6 —A state-men that 18 Germans interned at HorSprings. N. C. have died as tl*e result of typhoid fever epidemic In the enemy alien camp was author' ized tonight by the war department. .--- department says there have been in all 177 cases of typhoid since the outbreak of the disease early n August. The official statement of ths war department tonight confirms previ-ous dispatcies and reads as fOtUHTe! Due to the lack of proper water facilities, typhoid fever broke out at the alien enemy Internment camp at Hot Springs. N. C, early in August. Out of the 177 cases. 18 have died. All the patients have been removed to army general hospital No. 12 at Biltmore, N. C. All remaining pris-oners have bee removed to the in-ternment camp M Fort Oglethorpe. First Renon August 4. "The Hot Springs camp was turn-ed over to the army on July 1 for the purpose of transfering all prison-ers to the prison camp at Fort Ogle-thorpe This camp was instituted by the department of labor and its oc-cupants were mostly ueamen rcaac-ed from interned German ships which were seized at the outbreak of the war. "The first rerorfof typhoid at the camp was received in a telegram from the camp surgeon to the sur-geon general's office on August 4. Nine cases and 36 suspected ca-see and one death were reported. Sur-geon General Gorgas .sent an inspec-tor to the camp and a thorough in-vestigation, of the sanitary and water facilities was begun August 7. "The inspector found that the in-ternment station had been d4vided into two camps A and B There were . 1.000 prisoners in camp A and 1,127 in camp B. AH the cases developed from camp B. "The entire camp received ita main water supply from the city of Hot Springs. The source of this sup-ply being mountain springs. The quality of the water is good, but ow-ing to the fact that the camp had been overcrowded, it had been neces-sary to augment the water supply by the construction of .service v .3 in camp B. These oervice we!'.= wort intended to care far the toilets and baths in this part of the camp. The prisoners had bean .instructed no! to make use of this water for anything except bathing purposes and flush-ing toilets. As a further safeguard a chlorine apparatus was installed to purify the water. Hospital l':i«-ilii-:<•- Primitive. "The inspector from the medical department found these wells to be shallow, the tests proved that the water was contaminated. His inves-tigations showed that the facilities for caring for the sick were ''primi- / tive" and he recommended 'hat all the sick be transferred to the army general hospital at Biltmore. Pend-ing the removal of the men to the hospital at Biltmore, hospital facili-ties were borrow tj from the general hospital. "Following the recommendation of the inspector, the prisoners were inoculated against typhoid fever. The camp surgeon was directed to in-crease the amount of chlorine added to the water from .3 of a part per ' 1.000,000, to at least .4 parts per 1,000,000. "The overcrowding of the camp had curtailed the efficiency of the sanitary arrangements originally provided for the health of the pris-oners. The old Hot Spings hotel, with a capacity of 500 was used to house a great many of the prisoners in camp. Birracks in camp A ac-commodated the remainder in this section. In camp B, the barracks were found to be about 100 per cent over-crowded. He also found that owing to. the vast amount of clotb, ing and baggage housed in the can-tonments, the ventilation in the bar-racks was very poor. The general rules of sanitation hid been fol-lowed." Horn Italian Troops Landed. Washington. Sept. 6.—An official cablegram from Rome today etfttM that "another Italian transport, car-rying Italian contingents for opera-tions in Russia, arrived safely."
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Title | The Greensboro patriot [September 9, 1918] |
Date | 1918-09-09 |
Editor(s) | Mebane, C. H. (Charles Harden), 1862-1926 |
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Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The September 9, 1918, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by Patriot Publishing Company. |
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Full text | I kird3> eluding f s each, tnd Mo-ves and Go. 17-458 ACE HE o. b, N. C. e at the ■ int. NT. C. - •ty. f i "I IB m ie-th. nal ;h- 81 ne @ itesss is bod m to PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY PATRIOT GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1918. VOL. 97-NO. 72 | REPORTS fig BATTLEFIELDS „.««, MAKI>« STOUT RE- ((«***■ . ,..„„ A\S GAIN [isli armies the cUi their way into . on various sectors of . French TM »•" ,»*■» J° Ge:Jian 1W~ ., battle line m ..tlo«r P-1' ' T:)'Jl'-1 ..ndiiw the weather. '' nMn the violence of the op- "*'" n.u Marshal Haig'a forces SATURDAY'S SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT WAR NEWS NEW DRIVES ALL ALONG WEST BATTLEFEIDS—GAINS ARE MADE DAILY. Toe process of closing in toward the Hindenburg line at the points where it had not yet been reached was continued rapidly Saturday by both the French and the British. The British moved forward at on accele-rated pace below the Cambrai-Pe-ronne front and on that front itself they already are close to the line.. FRANCO-AMERICANS DRIlflNUlEMY OUT REPORTS FRIDAY SAY THAT RE-TIREMENT FROM PICARDY IS ALMOST A ROUT. encroached upon j South of the Somme the French ' h ■Tand St- Quentln, while far- | pressed on beyond Tergnier and oitili the French armies are moved up speedily along all the line rj£ eastward on the old Ncron ! opposite the front between La Fere \ 't",-,1 La Fere and Laon and and S:- Quentin. * Aj fi m Soiseons in an aux- [ Germans OMig Dp Ground In East. .. maneuver ».ca Mires in »•**'■ the same ob- On She Aisne, there was little | c.iar.ge towards the western part of i Additional Ground, the front where the Americans and Vesle and the Aisne French are on the river, facing the je liii.Tiwn» Between 'lle where the American troops Germans entrenched along the cana". Wiii the French, addi- which parallels the stream. Further . :. t'aU portion of • n IA are i:i the hell eefore the big : ; ■ March. 1 m Offering Siinu Resistance. been gained by east the Germans are givine up ;.:;e, jsronnd. T;,e British now are standing at in F!an.»ers the British made ,,,., .:x miles from St. Quen- some farther headway but found the '■•'"hivir.- carried out an advance German resistance stiffening around .aten mile from on the general LaBassee. The Germans apparently r- or Epehy- Hasbecourt and Ver- do not intend to give up Armentier- !i the greater es. in this sector, bi*t are reported of the Havrincourl wood, one hurriedly fortifying the region de- ,;::...:'. strong points barring tending it. ,rai also has been Bu,Kes in Iiin? Xow naUen6d ()ut UU6 be6-n-.„U'! Marshal Pochs succession of him-mering blows along the German lines tram Rheims to Arras sin:e July 18 have now well-nigh completely flat-tened out the great bulges created b; the German offensives of the the Germans are sr-~-n? ana early summer. ... e m resistance :o further Further still the well co-ordinated ., British. Gradually progress o! his attack baa brought Fres h are working their way h:ra to a poirfc where lie may well be .- north of soissons able to strike a sii'.l more disastrous in ue movement that aims at the blow to the German defensive sys-iaok at ■ ;. i Fere and Laon and tem in the west. iitions east of this What Gen. Forh's Plan May Involve. legi ., Thej have reached the out- It appears that Marshal Foch's skirts ol lage of Sevais on plan may prove to involve the turn-ii.' northern edge of the forest and ing of the old Hindenburg line at ! :-J miles from La Fere while a Oambrai and Laon. In the north the ■ llstan ie nort'.i they have British have been for several days in Meniiessis on the a position to deliver what might easily prove a vital stroke to the nils latter gain brings the French west of Cambrai, where they have than eight miles halted at the ("anal du Nord and 8l Q nude no move toward driving home Hard Fighting North of the Aisne. i the olow which the logic of the Sit- X rth ol Visne, near Soissons, ' u4t,on points t0 as inevitable. tomans are fighting hard to' In ,he south the armies of General Petain have now fought their way to positions where the left flank of the line is under their guns and the edges of the defensive positions are beginning to feel the effect of the i the Fren '■■ in check, realizing - them of much more :' - egion, in conjunc- 11» aver that is in the St. Gobian for- - entire German de- poundinS-i toward Rheims ion. Near Laffaux •-Sur-Aisne the ■m have delivered s-lrong coun- ■• French every- :?haTe maintained their ground. '..' "u Reacting s,uth of Ypres. - also are reacting xhar so«th of Ypres, especially • i'loegstreet, where hreatening the re-ntieres. Counter of-s here and east of :- »>■ |. B broken up by "the Da niv„1(v luken I>ast Week. ""* the first week of Septem- 1 Marshal Haig'e forces ' taker m 19.000prison- - ""n.bers of machine M 1»antitle» of stores. . * v '' ■ events are on the French Already in Advance of 1917 Line. On the western outskirts of the Bastion of St. Gobain. defending Laon, the French already at Barisis are in advance of the line they occu-pied in 1917 and further south be-low the main bastion, are standing on ground which had not been in al-lied hands since 1914. Further north they are before La Fere, whence an eastward drive would carry them north of the St. Gobain Massif. French Drive Aimed at Massif. The French drive seems clearly aimed at this Massif, which, appar-ently safe from capture by a frontal attack, seams not unlikely to prove the objective of an encircling move-ment. This, however, may have to await the further retirement of the Germans northward from the Aisne, to the east. Such a retirement is re-intente allies, in the gardad as Inevitable because Of the -'war is indicated allied position on me German left Newton D. Baker, flank, from the Aisne at Conde to it p.,." ""r,r> of war, again Vauxaillon and there are not want-var conference. , ing military critics who argue that the Germans here will not be per-mitted to halt even at the Chemin-des- Dames position but that the en-emy will be forced to retreat still further north, thus additionally ex-posing Laon on the west. '^"■"^ "KSHOITLD IS HELD THERE. - " '■ ' ■ ii: ''•—Congress to- 111 arrangement ' Peruvian and "^'s for the use of s interned at Cal- '■- J ■ ■ . C'allao were seiz- ".; in June, some of - steamers with pas- ■ "filiations, formerly Murderer Taken to Jail at Asheville. Asheville, Sept. 6.—Dennis Love-lace, of Rutherfordton county, ar-rested on the charge of killing his i father-in-law, H. E. Edwards, last Monday, has been brought to Ashe-ville and placed in the Buncombe '.'■'- •••'' Francisco. South ' count>' J3-1 for saEe keeping. Sheriff . lanjr. (.Tanner,, of Rutherford county, ef-' ,; off relations tectea tlle capture yesterday morning October, 1917 the ' and immea*latel>' brought Lovelace | save the presi- to Asheville. He will be held until use the German' nIs Pre:iminarJ' trial on the charge "" eesa of murder. The French and Americans are fast driving the Germans out of their positions in southern Picardy and in the sector between the Vesle and Aisne rivers. So rapid has been the progress of the allies—the French in Picardy and the Ameri-cans and French from" Soissons east-ward toward Rheims—that the re-tirement of the enemy has the ap-pearance of the beginning almost of a rout. Still Tasting Defeat. . Meanwhile Field Marshal Haig in the north, from Peronne to Ypres, has been almost as busily engaged with his troops in carrying out suc-cessful maneuvers which are only in a slightly less degree of rapidity forcing the Germans everywhere to give ground. Haigs men again have made the Germans taste bitter de-feat on numerous sectors and the end of the punishment for them seems not yet in sight. Thirty Towns Reclaimed. In the latest fighting in the region extending from the old Noyon sector to Soissons the French have reclaim-ed thirty villages from the Germans; have crossed the Somme Canal at several points and are standing only a short distance from the important junction of Ham with its roads lead-ing to St. Quentin and La Fere. On the south they have made further crossings of the Ailette river and are fast skirting the great wooded region which acts as a barrier to di-rect attack on Laon. the Chemin des Dames, and the western Aisne in the defense of the enemy. Seemingly at the present rate of progress this bar-rier shortly will nave been overcome and. indeed, the entire salient north-west of Soissons obliterated. Al-ready the French south of Fresnes. on the fringe of the high forest of Coucy. have penetrated the old Hin-denburg line. Falling Back to Old Line. All behind the lines northeast of Xoyon great conflagrations are to be seen, particularly around Jussy and La Fere, which apparently indicates that the Germans intend to fall back as fast as they can to the old German lines running southeastward from St Quentin. The French and Americans are hard after the Germans between the Vesle river and the Aisne and for more than 8 miles, extending from Conde to Vil-Arcy, they have driven the enemy across the Aisne and are standing on the southern bank of the river. Eastward toward Rheims, al-most up to the gates of the cathedral city, the German line is falling back northward. At the anchoir point of the line in the vicinity of Rheims. however, the Germans seem to be nold'.ng evidently realizing that a re-tragrade movement here would nec-essitate a straightening of their line perhaps as far eastward as Verdun. Along Vesle Front. In the initial maneuver to the re-treat along the Vesle front the Amer-icans and French captured both Baz-oches and Fismette. From Bazoches they moved six miles northward to Vil-Arcy, while from Fismette they have penetrated more than three miles northward to Barbonval, which is only a little more than a mile south of the Aisne. In T'liHidors. In Flanders the British have taken the town Ploegsteert and positions southwest of Messines and northeast of Wulverghem and repulsed strong counter attacks launched against them. Southeast of Arras all the way down the line to the south of the Somme below Peronne, the British have dug more deeply into the ene-my's front on various sectors, espe-cially toward Cambrai and immedi-ately north and south of Peronne in the latter region having driven in the enemy's rear guards for consid-erable distances. Bombing Americans. The Germans have been violently bombing the Americans at Frapelle on the eastern end of the battle front in Lorraine, but have attempted no infantry attacks. More than three thousand shells, many of them gas projectiles, have been sent into the American lines by the enemy. DBMOCRATS-REPUBLICANS APPLAUD CLAUDE KITCHIN WHES RE OFFERS GREAT TAXA-TnMMEASURE TO HOUSE-FUTURE COST LARGE. Washington. Sept. 6.—Represen-tative Claude Kitchin, chairman of tne ways and means committee, was given an ovation by the house today when he walked to the foot of the center aisle to begin debate on the eight billion dollar revenue bill. Both ptopublicans and Democrats arose to their feet and applauded the majority leader, who held in his hand the greatest taxation measure ever presented to a law-making body. In return for this send-off the North Carolina member, who is a forceful orator, delivered a speech replete with patriotism and contain-ing several startling statements. For instance, Mr. Kitchin predict-ed that never again will it be possi-ble for this government to operate on less than approximately four bil-lion dollars a year. It was not many years ago that a hubbub was raised when the appropriations of Congress reached nearly a billion dollars and Thomas B. Reed, then speaker of the house, sagely observed: "This is-a billion-dollar country." Hereafter, according to Mr. Kitch-in's forecast, it Is to be a four billion dollar country. The interest charge on the bonded indebtedness of the nation alone will amount to a billion a year. Mr. Kitchin explained today. If the war continues long, it will exceed by far that amount. Public Debt of Fort) Billion. "Should the war not end next year" said Mr. Kitchin. "we may ex-pect a public debt of forty billion dollars with correspondingly increas-ed interest charges." . Waving a copy of the revenue bill in hij^jvfjnd.at thp cutset of his speech. Mr. Kitcnin said: "The president, commander-in-chief of the army and navy, asked for a revenue bill to raise eight bil-lion dollars. Here it is." Continuing. Representative Kitch-in said in part: "This bill raises twice as much an-nual revenue as this or any other nation ever attempted to produce. It is more than three times the total of bonds issued and taxes levied by the federal government during the Civil war and two and one-half bil-lion dollars more than the total cost of the Civil war. I firmly believe that under the provisions of the bill we can raise the full amount with-out ruining a single business or em-barrassing a single individual." "I believe we have prepared a bill which will be supported by the treasury department and the admin-istration" continued Mr. Kitchin. "and I believe these taxes, enormous as they are. will be paid cheerfully by the loyal citizens of this country. They know that these taxes are be-ing paid in order to support our brave soldiers now fighting on the bloody fields of France. I believe the achievements of the American soldiers will forever challenge the admiration of mankind and will make the century ring with the glory of our nation. Nearly $20,000,000,000 in Bonds. "We will have issued in the near future about $26,000,000,000 of bonds, and on these there will be a fixed interest tuarge of about $1 105,000,000 every year. If we had not passed the bill increasing our revenues, we would have had to raise more than $30,000,000,000 in bonds, with a fixed interest charge greatly increased. "We know that after the war there must come a time of falling prices. It has come after every war in history. Profits and incomes, which now bear the great burden of these taxes, will be greatly reduced. Business men should be willing now. with the greatly increased profits and incomes, to pay more in taxes, and thus relieve themselves and fu-ture generations from these heavy interest charges. "Should the war not end next year we may expect a public deft of $40.- 000.000.000. with correspondingly increased fixed interest charges. The cost of pensions and insurance will be more than $1,000,000,000 annual-ly, and other expenses will be in-creased. Would it not be almost a crime against our own government if we should issue more bonds and less taxes? Let us not fasten these BRITISH AND AUSTRALIANS STILL PUSHING FORWARE VAST QUANTITIES OF WAR MA-TERIALS BURNED AS THE GERMANS RETREAT. With the British Army in France. Sept. 6.—Substantial advances again are reported all along the southern part of the line. The Australians have crossed the Somme on a wide front south of Peronne and after overcoming heavy opposition have driven into the territory the enemy was holding. St Chris:. Brie, Le Mesnil, Doignt and Athies wood all nave been taken and progress is re-ported east of these places. Many Explosions, Many Villages Aflame. The enemy also has been driven back from east and northeast of Pe-ronne. Over the whole area of the Germans retreat on this lage section many fires are raging and numerous explosions have been heard. Whole villages are aflame between the points to which the British have reached and the Hindenburg line. Here and in the northern area6 the Germans are burning vast quantities of war materials which they could not save, as the British are pushing them too hard. The British have reached the Athies-Ham road and are on the eastern outskirts of Bussu. At Xur-iu strong German forces, fighting desperately with machine guns and trench mortars, have caused the British to pause for the moment. Enemy Efforts to Save Their Big iiuns. Along the whole front from the southern extremity to the Bapaume- Cambrai road the enemy artillery fire gradually is dwindling away, in-dicating that the Germans are mak-ing strenuous efforts to get their guns back of the Hindenburg de-fenses. In the Queant area the "British after sharp fighting, occupied the ridge south of Moeuvres and captur-ed more German posts around Hav-rincourt wood. South of this wood the advance north and south of Equancourt met with heavy resist-ance. Just east of ..ere the whole town of Fins is aflame. British pests west of the Canal Dunord, north of Inchy, have been pushed forward, but patrols on the west bank were heavily fired upon from the east bank. One British pa-trol crawled across a damaged bridge and came upon an enemy outpost asleep. It captured three of them. More Fires Raging in the North. In the north, where British ad-vances are reported more fires are raging. In many places north of the Sensee river the Germans for several hours have been firing thousands of gas shells. Indiscriminately as though they are trying to get rid of them. A number of fires have been re-ported south of Estaires-Armentieres road. There have been three coun-ter- attacks against Hill 63 and the surrounding positions. Two broke down completely but the third, north of the hill, compelled the British to fall back slightly. Piece After Piece of Ground Reclaim-ed. Further north the British reached the crest of the important ridge northwest of Wulverghem, but were unable to go further for a time be-cause of heavy enemy machine gun and trench mortar fire. Still further north piece after piece of ground is being regained. The British have reached Canteleux and are pushing on toward Violaines. Weak enemy counter attacks south of Ploegsteert were easily smother-ed. Drafted Man Killed. Spartanburg, S. C, Sept. 6.—Jos-eph A. Merale, a drafted man from Brooklyn. H. Y.. died at Spartanburg Wednesday afternoon as the result of a blow on the head at Blacksburg, received as he rode past a water-pipe on the steps of a coach. His skull was crushed. financial burdens on future genera-tions. "I would feel like a miserable coward if I put a single dollar up to my children to pay to meet the cost of this war, if I could pay it myself. I refuse to display the lack of man-hood involved in leaving for those to come the burden of paying for what I ought to pay myself." EIGHTEEN GERMANS AT HOT SPRINGS ARE DEAD ONE HUNDRED AND SEVETTY* SEVEN CASES OF TYPHOID A* INTERMENT CAMP. Washington. Sept. 6 —A state-men that 18 Germans interned at HorSprings. N. C. have died as tl*e result of typhoid fever epidemic In the enemy alien camp was author' ized tonight by the war department. .--- department says there have been in all 177 cases of typhoid since the outbreak of the disease early n August. The official statement of ths war department tonight confirms previ-ous dispatcies and reads as fOtUHTe! Due to the lack of proper water facilities, typhoid fever broke out at the alien enemy Internment camp at Hot Springs. N. C, early in August. Out of the 177 cases. 18 have died. All the patients have been removed to army general hospital No. 12 at Biltmore, N. C. All remaining pris-oners have bee removed to the in-ternment camp M Fort Oglethorpe. First Renon August 4. "The Hot Springs camp was turn-ed over to the army on July 1 for the purpose of transfering all prison-ers to the prison camp at Fort Ogle-thorpe This camp was instituted by the department of labor and its oc-cupants were mostly ueamen rcaac-ed from interned German ships which were seized at the outbreak of the war. "The first rerorfof typhoid at the camp was received in a telegram from the camp surgeon to the sur-geon general's office on August 4. Nine cases and 36 suspected ca-see and one death were reported. Sur-geon General Gorgas .sent an inspec-tor to the camp and a thorough in-vestigation, of the sanitary and water facilities was begun August 7. "The inspector found that the in-ternment station had been d4vided into two camps A and B There were . 1.000 prisoners in camp A and 1,127 in camp B. AH the cases developed from camp B. "The entire camp received ita main water supply from the city of Hot Springs. The source of this sup-ply being mountain springs. The quality of the water is good, but ow-ing to the fact that the camp had been overcrowded, it had been neces-sary to augment the water supply by the construction of .service v .3 in camp B. These oervice we!'.= wort intended to care far the toilets and baths in this part of the camp. The prisoners had bean .instructed no! to make use of this water for anything except bathing purposes and flush-ing toilets. As a further safeguard a chlorine apparatus was installed to purify the water. Hospital l':i«-ilii-:<•- Primitive. "The inspector from the medical department found these wells to be shallow, the tests proved that the water was contaminated. His inves-tigations showed that the facilities for caring for the sick were ''primi- / tive" and he recommended 'hat all the sick be transferred to the army general hospital at Biltmore. Pend-ing the removal of the men to the hospital at Biltmore, hospital facili-ties were borrow tj from the general hospital. "Following the recommendation of the inspector, the prisoners were inoculated against typhoid fever. The camp surgeon was directed to in-crease the amount of chlorine added to the water from .3 of a part per ' 1.000,000, to at least .4 parts per 1,000,000. "The overcrowding of the camp had curtailed the efficiency of the sanitary arrangements originally provided for the health of the pris-oners. The old Hot Spings hotel, with a capacity of 500 was used to house a great many of the prisoners in camp. Birracks in camp A ac-commodated the remainder in this section. In camp B, the barracks were found to be about 100 per cent over-crowded. He also found that owing to. the vast amount of clotb, ing and baggage housed in the can-tonments, the ventilation in the bar-racks was very poor. The general rules of sanitation hid been fol-lowed." Horn Italian Troops Landed. Washington. Sept. 6.—An official cablegram from Rome today etfttM that "another Italian transport, car-rying Italian contingents for opera-tions in Russia, arrived safely." |